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philmanderon Hey, GitHub – Waiting list signup

This is effectively a new higher level programming language without a fixed syntax. Describing more the "what", not "how", and being much closer to natural language over computer language.

The voice part seems like an (albeit important) accessibility add on.

I'm sure it won't be perfect but an amazing step forward in the evolution of programming languages

philmanderon Ask HN: How did you learn to draw diagrams?

Good intro to using UML effectively: http://agilemodeling.com/essays/umlDiagrams.htm

philmanderon Show HN: I've made a rotary dial number input, because why not?

Works for me on Chrome/Android

philmanderon Eliud Kipchoge Breaks Two-Hour Marathon Barrier

They did exactly this two years ago and failed

philmanderon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2019)

We are building technology to help businesses hire better and faster at scale. We imagine a world where people are hired based on ability and personality and not on their resume.

Looking for engineers with leadership ambitions and a passion for building innovative, quality software using agile principles such as BDD, CI/CD, pairing etc.

Stack: React.JS, Node.JS (ES6 & Typescript), Express, GraphQL, MongoDB, AWS & Lambda/Docker. Cucumber/Jest for testing and Jenkins for CI/CD.

- Senior Frontend Enginer: https://careers.harver.com/o/senior-frontend-engineer-react

- Fullstack: https://careers.harver.com/o/fullstack-engineer-react-nodejs...

Questions for us: ben.dowse@harver.com

philmanderon Substantial Rise in Catalytic Converter Thefts

Poor cat

philmanderon Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email

I needed this 14 years ago

philmanderon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2019)

Currently scaling our Engineering team by 5 further additions after Series B $15mn funding in July 2019.

We are SaaS scale-up building technology to help businesses hire better and faster. We imagine a world where people are hired based on ability and personality and not on their resume.

Looking for engineers with leadership ambitions and a passion for building innovative, quality software using agile principles such as BDD, CI/CD, pairing etc.

Lead Frontend Engineer (Architect) | Senior Frontend Engineer (React, NodeJs), Fullstack Engineer X2 (React, NodeJs, MongoDB) | Freelance Data Engineer (Python)

Stack: React.JS, Node.JS (ES6 & Typescript), Express, GraphQL, MongoDB, AWS & Lambda/Docker. Cucumber/Jest for testing and Jenkins for CI/CD.

- Lead Engineer: https://careers.harver.com/o/javascript-lead-engineer-fronte...

- Senior Frontend Engineer: https://careers.harver.com/o/senior-frontend-engineer-react-...

- Fullstack: https://careers.harver.com/o/fullstack-engineer-react-nodejs...

Questions for us: ben.dowse@harver.com

philmanderon How Weight Training Might Change the Brain

In rats

And it does change the brain in rats. It might change the brain in humans.

philmanderon How Utrecht Became a Paradise for Cyclists

I should have said "misleading"

philmanderon How Utrecht Became a Paradise for Cyclists

This isn't accurate. They were not made for bikes.

Is was only in the 70s and 80s when there was a revolution in the introduction of cycling infrastructure.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2011...

philmanderon How Utrecht Became a Paradise for Cyclists

This has been such a positive change in Amsterdam

philmanderon Domain Storytelling: A DDD tool to visualize domain stories in the browser

There seems to be some overlap with a UML business use case which can be used for modelling requirements.

philmanderon Transpiled For-Of Loops Are Bad for the Client

One upon a time web developers had to wait for browsers to support new features. Using Babel does not automatically mean that this no longer true.

philmanderon The Myth of the Cool Tech Girl and Why She's Dangerous

I don't know. It all seems very alien to me. But I often see blog posts like these which make it seem ubiquitous.

philmanderon The Myth of the Cool Tech Girl and Why She's Dangerous

How widespread is the "toxic bro culture"? Is it regional or a particularly silicon-valley thing. Is it more common in startups or with younger employees?

Do most techies personally relate to this sentiment?

philmanderon Surviving injuries from falling

Not a counterpoint at all. Without his aikido skills he might have sustained a much more serious injury!

philmanderon Ask HN: Starting a project today, which web framework would you use?

I started one recently with Preact + Mobx. Very happy with it

philmanderon M.M.A. Fighter’s Pummeling of Tai Chi Master Rattles China

The belief in chi/qi power is deeply rooted in Chinese martial arts. Something that has no scientific basis.

The point here is not which fighting style is better, but that the tai chi master does not have any mystical or superhuman chi power he can draw upon to defeat his opponent. This is "the fraud" Xu Xiaodong wished to expose.

philmanderon A response to “An experienced JavaScript dev’s account of learning React”

It's often seen as an advantage of React that it's just a view library and not a framework. But if you want to build any reasonable kind of modern web app, you'll need those extra elements like routing and state management. You effectively must piece together your own framework and the cognitive overhead of this is huge. At least for the first time anyway.

philmanderon Ask HN: Have you ever regretted hiring a developer?

Showing some enthusiasm doesn't mean centering to your life around it

philmanderon Milk that lasts for months

There's quite a big different between 72°c and 140°c. Would 105° produce a semi-long lasting milk that doesn't taste quite as different (bad) as UHT?

Also, are there any other downsides to UHT besides taste? Are more nutrients lost?

philmanderon Ask HN: Have you ever regretted hiring a developer?

I thought it was interesting. But that was probably just me!

philmanderon Ask HN: Have you ever regretted hiring a developer?

I'm not sure what to make of that.

Assuming the product isn't genuinely boring, is it the norm then that developers without a direct financial incentive in the growth of the company should just be drones who type code in exchange for a salary?

philmanderon Ask HN: Have you ever regretted hiring a developer?

I've regretted hiring a few developers who have been apathetic about the actual software product we're making.

I am sometimes too optimistic about a technically proficient candidate sharing these traits, during the interview process.

After hiring they are depressingly unexcited about delivering a new feature that promises business value, significantly improves performance etc. It's just work to be done.

philmanderon We can teach women to code, but that just creates another problem

I've worked primarily as a frontend developer in the UK and the Netherlands for 12 years now and my experience has been exactly the opposite.

Although men still outweigh women I wouldn't think it unusual to see a female Java developer (I've mostly worked in java shops)

However I can only recall ever even interviewing one female front-end developer. From my experience they are incredibly rare.

Maybe my experience isn't typical or maybe it's geographical. Or is the article too subjective?

philmanderon Using Neutrino to jump-start modern JavaScript development

I hear you. Node.js made my Ant tasks for running jshint and qunit totally redundant :(

philmanderon Using Neutrino to jump-start modern JavaScript development

After just reading the title, I assumed the same thing, but actually this is exactly what web development needs.

create-react-app is a great example of a project that abstracts away all the complexities of a JavaScript build process and dev environment, but customization inevitably requires you to 'eject' and reintroduce that complexity to your project.

This tool goes one step further and supports customization without this eject step.

This is finally where web builds need to be to provide a simple foundation for modern web development so devs can focus more on making apps and less on tooling.

I look forward to trying it out.

philmanderon Show HN: A visual guide to the most popular CSS properties

Very useful.

You should consider serving a separate page for each property in addition to one big list. This would be more useful for quick Google lookups.

philmanderon Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

I've just made this interactive periodic table of elements.

It's a periodic table that you can interact with like Google maps or similar. Zooming in progressively reveals more information about each chemical weekend element including images, video and Wikipedia content

http://periodictablemap.com